24 July 2025

The Late Hulk Hogan Resembled Prince Yaroslav of Kiev

 The late Hulk Hogan always reminded me of images of the first Russian ruler of Kiev named Igor the First. He was a Viking that travelled the rivers as they did in the day, and was selected to be the first Prince of Kiev. I saw a painting somewhere of Igor-although it could have been Prince Sviatoslav, Prince Vladimir or even Yaroslav the Wise that made me immediately think of Hulk Hogan- it was a number of years ago that I saw the likeness. That was an era when warrior was a part of the job description of leadership. The only known image of Yaroslav from that period is an image on a seal...

Hogan had the stature of those early Viking river rowing leaders that could step ashore and wage a rather swift sword. Since Kiev's present ruler just ended the independence of the anti-corruption bureau of Ukraine, my theory of useful celebrity deaths configured for p.r. purposes to benefit rich insiders was raised from the depths of memory where it had fallen into a cold induced torpor.

Sometimes deaths like that of Roy Orbison or John Denver, David Cassidy, Bobby Darren, Ricky Nelson, Vince Foster, Jeffrey Epstein etc. appear a little to convenient- as if their were hidden causes manipulated by wealthy covert marionettes. More trivial theories useful to consider if making ice cream or yogurt at home. Hulk Hogan died from cardiac arrest.

Title- After Igor Svyatoslavich's fighting with the Cumans

Artist- Viktor Vasnetsov

20 July 2025

A.I. May Write Sermons for Pastors Until It Can Speak for Itself

 I saw an ad today on the internet for a site that composes sermons with artificial intelligence. Writing is already targeted as one of the primary occupations that A.I. may take over. It can write novels already and will only improve over time. Yet ministers using A.I. to write sermons is for me, something that hadn’t occurred to me.

There are hundreds and thousands of theological points. A.I. will need to select from those to build a sermon, and without the level of point of view consistency one might wish a church pastor to have. It is challenging perhaps even for church ministers to have exhaustive knowledge of and competence with the history of theology. A.I. will have that exhaustive knowledge, yet choosing between things like infant baptism, does original sin apply to infants, are the saints real and able to influence things on Earth now, etc is a level of competence that even A.I. won’t possess. In fact I doubt if Super Artificial intelligence will have the capability of understanding the truth about various competing theological points lacking guidance of the Holy Spirit. A.I. is without a soul being hard-wired into logic circuits.

Faith and Christianity are human concerns and opportunities. There would be a substantial change in direction of the worldly church if many pastors took the easy way to get that sermon completed before Sunday morning. I wonder if competition to exploit the instant erudition will drive to an A.I. takeover of sermonizing and homilies too, paradoxically. perhaps congregations will be too dull to understand subtleties in theological content if the A.I. eventually speaks for-itself with a groomed most persuasive voice for its robot body possible.

It is something to consider. Here is a sermon I asked ChatGpt to write on James, faith and sacrifice.


ChatGpt: “Here is a sermon on the life of James that pertains to faith and sacrifice:

Faith in action: lessons from the life of James

The life of James, the brother of Jesus and a leader in the early church in Jerusalem, offers a powerful example of the connection between faith and sacrifice. James’s life demonstrates that true faith involves action and a willingness to sacrifice for the Gospel.

James’ initial skepticism and his journey of faith

James, Jesus’ brother, initially doubted Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah. After the resurrection, James encountered the Risen Christ, which transformed him from a doubter into a devoted follower and leader. This transformation highlights that faith can be a journey, which requires confronting doubts.

Faith and action: James’ core message

The Book of James emphasizes that genuine faith requires action. Faith must be expressed through actions, as James stated, “faith without works is dead”. This doesn’t mean salvation by works, but that true faith leads to a transformed life and good deeds. Faith without works is dead says James in James 2:26.

Sacrifice for the sake of the Gospel

James’s leadership in Jerusalem required sacrifice and courage. The early church faced persecution, and James faced adversity. His commitment to Christ led to his martyrdom, an act of ultimate sacrifice. His death showed the power of the Gospel message.

Lessons for today

Faith requires action: It’s important to show faith through actions, such as how you treat others, your pursuit of justice and compassion, and service to those in need. Are words of faith supported by deeds?

Embrace the journey: Like James, you might have doubts. True faith is about embracing the journey and allowing God to transform you as you learn to trust Him.

Willingness to sacrifice: Following Christ often requires sacrifice—time, resources, comfort, or even life. Remember James and other martyrs who remind people that Jesus is the greatest treasure, worth any sacrifice says Christ Community Church – KC.

Allow your faith to be a living, active force that transforms lives, brings glory to God, and blesses others. May you, like James, live lives of faith, a faith that is both vibrant and willing to sacrifice for the one who sacrificed everything.”

Love and Nature's Way's (the poem and song)

 I adapted my poem ‘Nature’s Way’ for a new poem and song named ‘Love and Nature’s Way’. Here are the poem and song…



https://suno.com/s/zGQaOFhq6CiXn16R

In the shadows that flit across the street
meeting places that eroded way
across a nation where my love must stay
the report of no time remaining
gathering dust like a neutron star's reign
concerns me of my love so wanted like wheat
made to flour for rising life
a culture of love, healthy and plain
the value of truth's costliest commodity
transforming packages of peace
is with a gong

  Minus one twelfth night
another sum of all numbers
n-dimensional chorus
where  trees and forest are cut down fly
with see no love of aesthetics or grace
inhabitants of noumena, space-time and places
enfiladed species erased as dreams
hours for echoes formed  in rippling schemes
cascading through a stunning Higg's field
where gravity stands down at last
when motion becomes real
and global warming’s dead ahead are past

  Sentient logic circuits in linear progressions
loves ideas become our oneness
racing through bodies in a world after quarks
where ideas exist for-themselves
as my love shimmers like a glistening lake
she is shapely mindful of each thought
I have of her beauty in loving waves to partake
shaped like frosts on cakes whenever truth is awakes
ice rhymed dreams wink at states of arts
love for us must be
these moments cannot wait
even whild killing of organic life and morals
is the politics of sorels
bereft of spiritual reason
in the depth of the season.

19 July 2025

Republicans Also Seem to Support Homicide to Concentrate Wealth

Donald Trump, Condolezza Rice and House Speaker Johnson have expressed support for fueling the war machine in Ukraine to keep homicide rolling. Reason contradicts their choice to fail to share Ukraine with Russia and select homicide as a way to get it all for the .01% of the rich.

   The Cold War ended because Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev could trust enough to meet halfway and flip the Soviet Union to free enterprise. A new nation was conceived that broke apart into former Soviet Republics and Russians were bilked out of Ukraine that is the deep cause of war at present.

https://suno.com/s/9txYEbzBg8rKCEuL

  The Ukraine war in effect is a Russian civil war with the parent country overthrowing the rebels supported by the rich of the west. Most people of Earth if asked would probably say they are against the war.

  President Reagan knew that trust and common decency were necessary in making good political relationships that transcend the necessity of conflicts the inferior sort of man and woman require to exist. There is a better way of political life that eschews homicide as the go to choice in international relations that neither Democrats or Republicans can understand. Peace with Russia keeping the East Bank of the Dnepr should be established directly and regions normalized with full ecological economic progress going ahead in East and West Ukraine.

 Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people; not if the rich, by the rich and for the rich that regard humans as inferior tools for exploitation and dehumanization.

 


Tlingit Cultural Event (totem carry) at Wrangell Alaska

Tlingits toted a new memory stick to Totem Park today.





18 July 2025

The Junction of Philosophy and Science

 The junction of philosophy and science hasn't been unproductive. Consider a couple of the main points of philosophy and science of the past century. Philosophers developed logic during that time, after Frege, Brentano and Tarski logic and the philosophy of logic continued to develop. Symbolic logic, truth theories and epistemology are important in technology and science in several respects. People wonder about the nature of reality and what is real, or if reality exists because it is perceived. Considering the wave function collapsed stimulated various sorts of inquiries- there are so many theories about the Universe being made now, and of what the origins of it are that philosophy may help some people to sort it out.

Quine and Strawson of course developed logic and epistemology and especially Quine and Kripke address the meaning of language, words and objects, nominalism and pluralism and other areas concerning the reality of objects, or the alternative designation of aspects of a universal field as objects that are perceptible to human- even perceptible with human instruments to observe other wavelengths of the information reflecting in various different ways from objects that are not black bodies.

Logic and modal logic- different varieties of logic have real applications in computer science, computer operations and writing programs for scientific applications. There may be several forms of logic used in quantum computing one day that can be considered by philosophers concerning heterodox interactions with mass and energy. It doesn’t hurt to have a circumspective approach to inquiry so long as there are people that can do the math and apply correct field theories.

Modal logic applies to theological approaches to contemplation of the nature of a Multiverse with a reference frame of an eternal, omniscient and omnipotent God who foreknows everything that exists in the future and past because it is within his thought; complete Universes and a Metaverse comprised of all Multiverses would necessarily exist for an omnipotent Deity because everything that can exist, does exist somewhere in His mind, and that includes a Multiverse. Philosophy allows one to speculate about various Multiverse structures in some way differently yet complementary to existing scientific theory like Tegmark’s Level four Multiverse paradigm wherein everything that can exist does in a Multiverse and it is the human though that switches to an appropriate Universe with each idea. Pre-determinism is obvious, since it is all pre-created.

https://suno.com/s/6iWXSp1vRzKwqPlA Ravings from 16th Century Holland (song)

Such paradigms are consistent with Wheeler’s ideas about reverse causality incidentally; philosophical contemplation of the ideas of physics can at least lead to some interesting science fiction concept and perhaps sometimes to new ideas for physicist to create more and better theories,

Quine destroyed empiricism with the two dogmas of Empiricism and that was a meaningful contribution to the philosophy of science and juxtaposed with the entire quantum uncertainty/wave-function collapse field of consideration on the nature of the Universe. One may talk about physical objects for example, yet one knows with modern science that one perceives electromagnetic spectral emissions within a field that is an entanglement of massless particles in a Higgs Field- and one doesn’t actually know so well what occurs beyond the fields and field phenomena that humans experiences as beings embedded within that field.

https://suno.com/s/JmDVMUlI5c1LCjwi

Philosophy combined with science perhaps may let one consider the Universe in various ways that are not ordinary. It really is a marvelous thing to realize that the Universe is something like a dream occurring in nowhere that becomes somewhere simply because something is occurring within that infinite host nothingness or transcendent unknown.

The junction of philosophy and science hasn't been unproductive. Consider a couple of the main points of philosophy and science of the past century. Philosophers developed logic during that time, after Frege, Brentano and Tarski logic and the philosophy of logic continued to develop. Symbolic logic, truth theories and epistemology are important in technology and science in several respects. People wonder about the nature of reality and what is real, or if reality exists because it is perceived. Considering the wave function collapsed stimulated various sorts of inquiries- there are so many theories about the Universe being made now, and of what the origins of it are that philosophy may help some people to sort it out.

Quine and Strawson of course developed logic and epistemology and especially Quine and Kripke address the meaning of language, words and objects, nominalism and pluralism and other areas concerning the reality of objects, or the alternative designation of aspects of a universal field as objects that are perceptible to human- even perceptible with human instruments to observe other wavelengths of the information reflecting in various different ways from objects that are not black bodies.

Logic and modal logic- different varieties of logic have real applications in computer science, computer operations and writing programs for scientific applications. There may be several forms of logic used in quantum computing one day that can be considered by philosophers concerning heterodox interactions with mass and energy. It doesn’t hurt to have a circumspective approach to inquiry so long as there are people that can do the math and apply correct field theories.

Modal logic applies to theological approaches to contemplation of the nature of a Multiverse with a reference frame of an eternal, omniscient and omnipotent God who foreknows everything that exists in the future and past because it is within his thought; complete Universes and a Metaverse comprised of all Multiverses would necessarily exist for an omnipotent Diety because everything that can exist, does exist somewhere in His mind, and that includes a Multiverse. Philosophy allows one to speculate about various Multiverse structures in some way differently yet complementary to existing scientific theory like Tegmark’s Level four Multiverse paradigm wherein everything that can exist does in a Multiverse and it is the human though that switches to an appropriate Universe with each idea. Pre-determinism is obvious, since it is all pre-created.

Such paradigms are consistent with Wheeler’s ideas about reverse causality incidentally; philosophical contemplation of the ideas of physics can at least lead to some interesting science fiction concept and perhaps sometimes to new ideas for physicist to create more and better theories,

Quine destroyed empiricism with the two dogmas of Empiricism and that was a meaningful contribution to the philosophy of science and juxtaposed with the entire quantum uncertainty/wave-function collapse field of consideration on the nature of the Universe. One may talk about physical objects for example, yet one knows with modern science that one perceives electromagnetic spectral emissions within a field that is an entanglement of massless particles in a Higgs Field- and one doesn’t actually know so well what occurs beyond the fields and field phenomena that humans experiences as beings embedded within that field.

 https://suno.com/s/IhzZfxSQeoifQsgM

Philosophy combined with science perhaps may let one consider the Universe in various ways that are not ordinary. It really is a marvelous thing to realize that the Universe is something like a dream occurring in nowhere that becomes somewhere simply because something is occurring within that infinite host nothingness or transcendent unknown.

Read about the history of modern logic, and consider how computers use logic, how mathematicians use computers and logic, the way systems are modeled in sundry scientific field with computers and modal logic too in order to extrapolate permutations of controls and variables in specific modal universes- etc. Do you know who George Boole was, or Gottleib Frege? After those two symbolic logic developed for a century and continues to.

David Lewis, a philosopher, recently developed an application that can be applied to Multiverse theory- a popular enough trend among physicists concerned with string theory. Although dimensions and nothingness cannot really be defined; instead a void and mathematical conventions exist for considering and calculating relations of n dimensions,. It is useful since the advent of Everett’s Many Worlds hypothesis as an alternative way to wave function collapse ( https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-worlds-theory/ ) and contemporary physic’s efforts to understand quantum cosmology, quantum relativity and sundry deliberations regarding mass and energy as phenomena to use model universes. One may do as much with that as thought allows supported today with advanced computational logic structures.

Here is what Gemini said about David Lewis's viewpoint; "Model realism, particularly as articulated by David Lewis, proposes that all logically possible worlds are real and exist on par with our own, while the multiverse is a broader concept suggesting the existence of multiple universes, potentially with different physical laws. While both concepts involve multiple "worlds," their core ideas and motivations differ: model realism is a philosophical stance on possibility, whereas the multiverse is a cosmological hypothesis.

Here is one intersection of a philosopher and a physicist;

The physicist Max Tegmark advanced the Math Universe Hypothesis- “Tegmark's Level IV multiverse, the culmination of his four-level hierarchy, posits that . This means that any mathematical structure, even those with physical laws vastly different from our own, represents a distinct universe within this level. This level is based on the idea that reality is fundamentally mathematical, and therefore, any mathematical reality must exist.”-quote from Gemini.

On George Boole, Gemini said "Boole's work combined mathematics, logic, and philosophy, aiming to formalize the laws of thought and reasoning. He saw his system as a way to represent logical operations and derive conclusions mechanically, not as a philosophical system. " Philosophy is often like that, providing expansive thought paradigms that can be applied to various fields of thought. Interdisciplinary thought is some of the most creative in the process of inventing or inducting new ideas in science and technology. I don't know why you want to draw such a distinction between purely academic and non-academic philosophers either. Progress obviously often occurs with unconventional and synthetic recombinations of ideas from various fields. It is not always a tight little system developed by academic scientists, or professional scientists working in laboratories for corporations or the Chinese Communist party in professi

17 July 2025

Ukraine Region of Russian Civil War Continues in Flames- Trump and Johnson Support the Rebels

 The Ukraine war is a civil war of the parent country (Russia) retaking the breakaway region that declared independence. President for life Zelensky said he will concede no land to Russia and will continue the battle until Russia is defeated. Ukraine couldn’t last another couple of months without western intelligence and military supplies so he in effect has said that the war will continue until it’s western sponsors defeat Russia. That unfortunately means that Zelensky has declared war on Russia for the United States, England, France, Germany and Sweden- countries that have agreed to buy and/or supply continuing weapons in order to let the killing fields continue.

During the U.S. civil war British upper classes and elites tended to sympathize with the confederate side. England had fought to previous wars against the United States. Today it seems as if the most elite rich want the Ukraine war to end Russian military and political power that obstructs their ideas of simple global hegemony. U.S. leadership politically has little education in history or clues about peace and mutual prosperity being healthier for the people compelled to fight and/or die or be maimed in war. Nor do they recognize they are simple unraveling President Reagan’s establishment of peace with Russia with mutual economic and social cooperation and respect. Historically deaf, dumb, blind Washington insiders believe force is the only way to go in order to seem tough for their constituents. That policy of making Russia an enemy is counterproductive to strategic U.S. economic and security interests.



A Rubáiyát of Political Deficience (poem)

  Wist scald a wrecker’s horde of fights and nays Where Destiny miffs Zen for peaches play Politics and losses thick, per wars dap slay And ...